My Story: I Dropped-Out Of College & Have Now Rescued More Than 6000 Reptiles

My Story: I Dropped-Out Of College & Have Now Rescued More Than 6000 Reptiles

“Since childhood I was curious to know about animals. While kids of my age would play with each other, I would observe and play with animals and birds. I secretly used to keep snakes, lizards, scorpions at my house and my parents never used to know about it as these reptiles don’t make any noise. For nights I would observe their behavior and note down every small activity and movement they would do. I had made charts, diagrams and structures which would help me understand animals in a more better way.

One fine day my parents found out everything and also I wasn’t aware about the Wildlife Protection Act which didn’t allow us to keep certain species of animals at home. Gradually time passed by but my passion for wildlife animals still remained the same but I didn’t have proper counselling who could guide me to choose a field that could help me convert my passion for wildlife animals into profession, so, I went with my second-best guess and entered in the field of computers. Two years into the graduation and I realized that this is not where my heart lies. I left the graduation and started working with a wildlife animal organisation in the city for which I used to volunteer earlier. I started working in the city as a wildlife rehabilitator and conducted many rescue operations. I specialized in working with crocodilians and venomous snakes.

My passion for reptiles and animals took me to United States to Thailand, Sri Lanka to Bhutan and many other countries. I have also worked with many international as well as national organisations. Over the period of years, I have worked with more than 100 species and have rescued more than 6000 reptiles.

There has been this one time when I was very nervous as I had catch Gharials from the river Chambal for a research project and fit radio transmitters on them to monitor their activity. I found one 17.6 feet long Gharial, which was a huge reptile and an endangered species and one of the largest crocodilian in the world. I caught him and brought him safely on land and then we fitted transmitter on him and then safely freed him back in the river without any scratch on his body. This project was one of the most nerve wrecking project of my life.

Any Message?
There is a huge need to understand that we share this earth with many other species. We should learn to co-exist with them and make sure that they too get proper environment to live.”

Story: Soham Mukherjee

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Be A True Ally To The Women In Your Life #ShareTheLoad

Women empowerment is one of the most important words of the present times. It is not a mere phrase but it rather represents a movement, which has been pending for the longest time. However, many have a misconception that educating women, “letting” them work, etc. is all that women empowerment is all about. However, the concept of women empowerment is more of an umbrella term. It intends to involve society as a whole, including men.

We always encourage and applaud a woman who successfully balances both work life and her household. But won’t it be easy for that woman if the load of the work is shared? We see that in our society a woman’s primary role is seen as that of a homemaker. At the same time, her personal likes, aspirations, and dreams are forced to be put on the backburner because of the undue expectation that she has to single handedly manage the household while balancing her career. To give credit where it is due, the times are changing. Men and women of the house are increasingly sharing the workload. However, one can also not turn a blind to the fact that a lot more still needs to be done.

Driving home the same concept, popular brand Ariel has come up with brilliant communication.

The video shows a mother speaking to her married daughter over the phone, all whilst cleaning the mess her son has created. She is absolutely heartbroken when her daughter says that she plans to quit her job since juggling both a demanding job and her household has become too overwhelming. It is during this time that she realises that while she and her husband as parents left no stone unturned to give an all-round upbringing to their daughter, they somewhere forgot to teach their son some basic life skills like cooking and doing laundry so that they grow out to be equally responsible in doing household chores. This is not a story of just one family, but of families across the country. These are some things which everyone must know, not for any other reason, but simply because these are basic tasks which are absolutely essential to survive. And, they make you capable to be equal partners tomorrow!

As Ariel raises an important question-is household work only a woman’s job? We need to ask ourselves the same question. A recent study revealed that the unpaid work done by women around the world amounted to 43 times the annual turnover of Apple Inc. It is high time we share the load and change the narrative that household work is the “duty” of a woman. As the video shows, contributing to the household work is not only a daughter’s work, but the son must contribute his bit too. It is also important for the parents to instil a sense of responsibility in their children, irrespective of their gender so that at any juncture of their lives, they are not completely dependent on another person for basic tasks like these. Ariel has been consistently driving this message and addressing the inequality within households since 2015. The Logical Indian applauds Ariel for coming up with such a brilliant video for depicting such an important concept.